| Description |
xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series in philosophy |
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SUNY series in philosophy.
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| Contents |
Pretext: Through the Looking Class -- 1. Holding One's Time In Thought. Rorty's Grand Narrative. The Legitimacy Question. Strands of Modernity. The Need For Narratives. Is This Historicism? -- 2. An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking. The Aesthetic Axis of American Philosophy. From Experience to Language. Keeping Pragmatism Pure. Pragmatism and Politics. Heroes (and Villains) of the New Pragmatism -- 3. Irony's Master, Irony's Slave. A Strong Misreading of Irony. Irony on the Offensive. Philosophy without irony: Jurgen Habermas. Irony and the Liberal Conscience: Michel Foucault. Der Fall des Heideggers -- 4. Excursus Ad Hominem. Lonely Provincialism. Sincere Ethnocentrism. Pale Heroics. A Bashful Prophet. A Diffident Poet -- 5. Circumvention and Circumlocution. Rorty's Methodophobia. Ars Contextualis. Around and About Derrida. The Search for Private Perfection -- Epitext: Guide for Those Still Perplexed |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-276) and indexes |
| Subject |
Rorty, Richard.
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Pragmatism -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
93018515 |
| ISBN |
0791417719 (hard : alk. paper) |
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0791417727 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780791417720 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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